[Portrait of Bishop Beilby Porteus] [art original]

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Title: [Portrait of Bishop Beilby Porteus] [art original]
Creator: Downman, John, 1750-1824, artist
Published / Created: 1790.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Bishop Beilby Porteus (sometimes Porteous), Bishop of Chester 1776-1787 and Bishop of London 1787-1809. He and his wife were intimate friends of Hannah More who introduced them to Horace Walpole
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed by the artist lower right: J. Downman 1790.
John Downman, Britsh artist, 1750-1824.
No. 72 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
Provenance: Purchased at Christie's, 21 December 1950, lot 63 (16 gns. to Andrade). Sotheby's, 4 December 1957, lot 17 to Agnew for W.S. Lewis, with a companion drawing of his wife, Mrs. Porteus, née Margaret Hodgson (see Lewis Walpole Library Drawings D751 no. 20.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 20.3 x 17 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: John Downman, Portrait of Bishop Beilby Porteus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.